Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triple and broad jumpers. Sharpe who wrenched his knee in March, is recovering, but McCurdy says his leg is still bothering him. Pole vaulter Jim Kleiger, one of the few Crimson runners to make the trip to the Penn Relays over the weekend, was a victim of the injury jinx. He banged his foot in Philadelphia, and will be sidelined tomorrow...
...Ethyl is headquartered in two new Williamsburg-style buildings, with a painting of Robert E. Lee in the board room. Now the Gottwalds must decide how to defend their empire against the anti-lead threats. And diversifying into new fields seems to carry the promise of incurring the family jinx. When phosphates in detergents came under fire from environmentalists, Ethyl spent $2 million to study and design a plant for a substitute product called NTA. Before the Gottwalds could get it into production, the Government ordered detergent makers to stop using...
Harvard has won the meet for the past seven years, last losing when Princetoneked out a 28-29 victory in 1962. Record books report, that Yale's last Big Three triumph came in 1960. Of course Harvard must overcome one jinx: it has never won during the first year of the decade...
...unless this jinx is pretty powerful-and the chances are that the Crimson isn't even aware of it-Harvard should not have too much trouble from either Yale or Princeton...
...been transmogrified by Paramount into all-blackness. The premiere was predictable yet sprightly, as the hero (Scoey Mitchlll), a token Negro in a fashionable law firm, was cajoled into moonlighting as a butler at a party, where, naturally, his boss showed up. Offscreen, Scoey has beaten the 13-week jinx in his own way. After hassling all summer, Mitchlll popped a Paramount vice president in the face with just twelve shows finished. As of last week, Scoey's replacement was unchosen...